Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️
@brettolmsted.bsky.social
PhD in 20th Cen. U.S. History (Latinx, Labor, Immigration, Politics)
Book: Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience (Illinois Press Dec 2025) http://bit.ly/47BdTOH
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Book: Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience (Illinois Press Dec 2025) http://bit.ly/47BdTOH
Views my own / Reposts are not endorsements
The actual war on Christmas
December 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The actual war on Christmas
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Did you know Question Mark and the Mysterians were children of migrant farm workers?
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#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
Releases December 23
Did you know Question Mark and the Mysterians were children of migrant farm workers?
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#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Releases December 23
Did you know Question Mark and the Mysterians were children of migrant farm workers?
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#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
Releases December 23
Did you know Question Mark and the Mysterians were children of migrant farm workers?
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#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
When art is real life
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
- Donald Trump, January 23, 2016
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
- Donald Trump, January 23, 2016
![Elphaba: No! Don't you think I wish I could? I would give anything to go back to a time when l... When I actually believed that you were wonderful. A wonderful Wizard of Oz.
No one believed in you more than I did. But there's no going back. And we can't move forward until everyone knows what I know.
And once they know the truth...
Wizard: [interrupts] They're not going to believe it.
Elphaba: How can you say that?
Wizard: I'm just being straight with you. I could tell them that I've been lying to them till l'm - forgive me, blue in the face - but it wouldn't make any difference. They're never going to stop believing in me. You know why? Because they don't want to.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:755ec2mskirtxe47pskaz6me/bafkreifwrht332j4iu2icb24l7f22omfcwkh63unni5q2tdvbbv6wggese@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
When art is real life
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
- Donald Trump, January 23, 2016
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
- Donald Trump, January 23, 2016
Historian here: Did you know there were Mexican Americans in the @uaw.org 1937 Sit-Down Strike?
Read about it in Making Michigan Home
Rediscover History
#History #EduSky #AcademicSky #SkyStorians #Latinx
Preorder now from @illinoispress.bsky.social
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Read about it in Making Michigan Home
Rediscover History
#History #EduSky #AcademicSky #SkyStorians #Latinx
Preorder now from @illinoispress.bsky.social
@uawarchivist.bsky.social
bit.ly/47BdTOH
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Historian here: Did you know there were Mexican Americans in the @uaw.org 1937 Sit-Down Strike?
Read about it in Making Michigan Home
Rediscover History
#History #EduSky #AcademicSky #SkyStorians #Latinx
Preorder now from @illinoispress.bsky.social
@uawarchivist.bsky.social
bit.ly/47BdTOH
Read about it in Making Michigan Home
Rediscover History
#History #EduSky #AcademicSky #SkyStorians #Latinx
Preorder now from @illinoispress.bsky.social
@uawarchivist.bsky.social
bit.ly/47BdTOH
1 MONTH TO GO. Pre-order Making Michigan Home - 30% off
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Examines how Mexican Americans made the Midwest their home
Rediscover how Latinx history is US history
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Examines how Mexican Americans made the Midwest their home
Rediscover how Latinx history is US history
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
1 MONTH TO GO. Pre-order Making Michigan Home - 30% off
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Examines how Mexican Americans made the Midwest their home
Rediscover how Latinx history is US history
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Examines how Mexican Americans made the Midwest their home
Rediscover how Latinx history is US history
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
Just 5 weeks to go. Pre-order Making Michigan Home - 30% off
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Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given the mass deportations that ignores their long history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given the mass deportations that ignores their long history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Just 5 weeks to go. Pre-order Making Michigan Home - 30% off
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given the mass deportations that ignores their long history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
@illinoispress.bsky.social
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given the mass deportations that ignores their long history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #AcademicSky 🗃️
Santa: Dear President Trump, due to your tariffs the cost to make toys this year is too costly
Trump: WHAT?!? How dare you question the affordability of goods. Haven’t you heard, prices are down everywhere. No one has done a better job than me
Now, for Christmas I want everything gilded in gold
Trump: WHAT?!? How dare you question the affordability of goods. Haven’t you heard, prices are down everywhere. No one has done a better job than me
Now, for Christmas I want everything gilded in gold
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Santa: Dear President Trump, due to your tariffs the cost to make toys this year is too costly
Trump: WHAT?!? How dare you question the affordability of goods. Haven’t you heard, prices are down everywhere. No one has done a better job than me
Now, for Christmas I want everything gilded in gold
Trump: WHAT?!? How dare you question the affordability of goods. Haven’t you heard, prices are down everywhere. No one has done a better job than me
Now, for Christmas I want everything gilded in gold
Just 5 weeks to go. Pre-order Making Michigan Home - 30% off
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given how current admin wants mass deportations ignoring their history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #MAS #MexicanAmerican #Chicanx
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Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given how current admin wants mass deportations ignoring their history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #MAS #MexicanAmerican #Chicanx
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November 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Just 5 weeks to go. Pre-order Making Michigan Home - 30% off
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given how current admin wants mass deportations ignoring their history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #MAS #MexicanAmerican #Chicanx
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Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Midwest
Timely given how current admin wants mass deportations ignoring their history in the region
#Latinx #History #USHistory #EduSky #SkyStorians #MAS #MexicanAmerican #Chicanx
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I give you the president of the United States
What kind of human being, let alone president, should have to be court-ordered to use money set aside to FREAKIN USE THAT MONEY TO HELP PEOPLE EAT
And the same day stand by unmoved as someone needs medical attention not 10 feet away
Sociopath
What kind of human being, let alone president, should have to be court-ordered to use money set aside to FREAKIN USE THAT MONEY TO HELP PEOPLE EAT
And the same day stand by unmoved as someone needs medical attention not 10 feet away
Sociopath
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I give you the president of the United States
What kind of human being, let alone president, should have to be court-ordered to use money set aside to FREAKIN USE THAT MONEY TO HELP PEOPLE EAT
And the same day stand by unmoved as someone needs medical attention not 10 feet away
Sociopath
What kind of human being, let alone president, should have to be court-ordered to use money set aside to FREAKIN USE THAT MONEY TO HELP PEOPLE EAT
And the same day stand by unmoved as someone needs medical attention not 10 feet away
Sociopath
When people voted last night it was/is still about price of food. Trump went on 60 minutes and lied that prices were going down.
Here is the sale price of steak per pound from 2023 to 2025. Price is up more than 45%
#TrumpFlation
Here is the sale price of steak per pound from 2023 to 2025. Price is up more than 45%
#TrumpFlation
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
When people voted last night it was/is still about price of food. Trump went on 60 minutes and lied that prices were going down.
Here is the sale price of steak per pound from 2023 to 2025. Price is up more than 45%
#TrumpFlation
Here is the sale price of steak per pound from 2023 to 2025. Price is up more than 45%
#TrumpFlation
But they are not “their” kind of Christians whereby Jesus was a blond haired, blue eyed messenger that you need to own a gun, pull yourself by your own bootstraps, and get rid of anyone who doesn’t look/believe like you.
Those detained/deported are not WASPs (white Anglo-Saxon Protestants)
Those detained/deported are not WASPs (white Anglo-Saxon Protestants)
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
But they are not “their” kind of Christians whereby Jesus was a blond haired, blue eyed messenger that you need to own a gun, pull yourself by your own bootstraps, and get rid of anyone who doesn’t look/believe like you.
Those detained/deported are not WASPs (white Anglo-Saxon Protestants)
Those detained/deported are not WASPs (white Anglo-Saxon Protestants)
How about we stop focusing on the very few “undeserving poor” who abuse aid and focus instead on the wealthy corporations who abuse the benefits like SNAP to exploit their workers and keep wages depressed
Walmart did this while making record profits and giving huge CEO salaries
#TaxTheRich
Walmart did this while making record profits and giving huge CEO salaries
#TaxTheRich
October 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
How about we stop focusing on the very few “undeserving poor” who abuse aid and focus instead on the wealthy corporations who abuse the benefits like SNAP to exploit their workers and keep wages depressed
Walmart did this while making record profits and giving huge CEO salaries
#TaxTheRich
Walmart did this while making record profits and giving huge CEO salaries
#TaxTheRich
Gonna leave this here.
(However, I remember them complaining about Shakira too, though she was the guest to Jennifer Lopez - that was a good show)
(However, I remember them complaining about Shakira too, though she was the guest to Jennifer Lopez - that was a good show)
October 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Gonna leave this here.
(However, I remember them complaining about Shakira too, though she was the guest to Jennifer Lopez - that was a good show)
(However, I remember them complaining about Shakira too, though she was the guest to Jennifer Lopez - that was a good show)
Just because a person says 2+2=5 doesn’t make it true. It just makes that person wrong and, if they keep repeating it insisting it’s true, makes them idiotic & dangerous
Trump has 'determined' “ U.S. is in 'armed conflict' w/ cartels, administration tells Congress www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Trump has 'determined' “ U.S. is in 'armed conflict' w/ cartels, administration tells Congress www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
October 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Just because a person says 2+2=5 doesn’t make it true. It just makes that person wrong and, if they keep repeating it insisting it’s true, makes them idiotic & dangerous
Trump has 'determined' “ U.S. is in 'armed conflict' w/ cartels, administration tells Congress www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Trump has 'determined' “ U.S. is in 'armed conflict' w/ cartels, administration tells Congress www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Does Trump know his party has the majority in both chambers and could pass this without Democratic Party votes (if they could unify all the Rs)?
September 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Does Trump know his party has the majority in both chambers and could pass this without Democratic Party votes (if they could unify all the Rs)?
Hello to all. I study US Latinx history and have a book coming out Dec 23, 2025 from Illinois Press:
Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience
It examines placemaking via leisure and labor (available @illinoispress.bsky.social and Amazon)
bit.ly/47BdTOH
Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience
It examines placemaking via leisure and labor (available @illinoispress.bsky.social and Amazon)
bit.ly/47BdTOH
September 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Hello to all. I study US Latinx history and have a book coming out Dec 23, 2025 from Illinois Press:
Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience
It examines placemaking via leisure and labor (available @illinoispress.bsky.social and Amazon)
bit.ly/47BdTOH
Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience
It examines placemaking via leisure and labor (available @illinoispress.bsky.social and Amazon)
bit.ly/47BdTOH
This is an iSnitch to call when you see someone in a place you think they don’t belong based on skin, language, or wealth, OR someone with different political beliefs (Trump has said repeatedly he hates Dems and they are destroying the country)
It’s McCathyism witch hunts 2.0
It’s McCathyism witch hunts 2.0
September 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is an iSnitch to call when you see someone in a place you think they don’t belong based on skin, language, or wealth, OR someone with different political beliefs (Trump has said repeatedly he hates Dems and they are destroying the country)
It’s McCathyism witch hunts 2.0
It’s McCathyism witch hunts 2.0
The military should not be sent into any US city. Doing so is dangerous and unconstitutional.
Sending the military into US cities creates an occupied America and colonialism (settlements) within America in American cities.
Sending the military into US cities creates an occupied America and colonialism (settlements) within America in American cities.
September 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The military should not be sent into any US city. Doing so is dangerous and unconstitutional.
Sending the military into US cities creates an occupied America and colonialism (settlements) within America in American cities.
Sending the military into US cities creates an occupied America and colonialism (settlements) within America in American cities.
“There were drugs on board” is the new “they have weapons of mass destruction”
Sure sounds like the “worst case” that was argued in SCOTUS that presidential immunity meant a president could order seal team six to assassinate a political enemy and it would be an “official act”
Sure sounds like the “worst case” that was argued in SCOTUS that presidential immunity meant a president could order seal team six to assassinate a political enemy and it would be an “official act”
September 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
“There were drugs on board” is the new “they have weapons of mass destruction”
Sure sounds like the “worst case” that was argued in SCOTUS that presidential immunity meant a president could order seal team six to assassinate a political enemy and it would be an “official act”
Sure sounds like the “worst case” that was argued in SCOTUS that presidential immunity meant a president could order seal team six to assassinate a political enemy and it would be an “official act”
This is gross, disgusting, ugly, immoral, and disgraceful
This is fascism.
If any other president had even alluded to this, there would have been immediate impeachment proceedings and wall to wall coverage on Fox “News”
This is fascism.
If any other president had even alluded to this, there would have been immediate impeachment proceedings and wall to wall coverage on Fox “News”
September 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This is gross, disgusting, ugly, immoral, and disgraceful
This is fascism.
If any other president had even alluded to this, there would have been immediate impeachment proceedings and wall to wall coverage on Fox “News”
This is fascism.
If any other president had even alluded to this, there would have been immediate impeachment proceedings and wall to wall coverage on Fox “News”
FFS 🤬
First we bomb a boat in international waters killing 11
Now we are going to rename the dept to portray what is now the goal - WAR - killing people, not to defend our nation but because Trump wants to
And this douche bag wants a Nobel peace prize????🙄
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
First we bomb a boat in international waters killing 11
Now we are going to rename the dept to portray what is now the goal - WAR - killing people, not to defend our nation but because Trump wants to
And this douche bag wants a Nobel peace prize????🙄
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
September 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
FFS 🤬
First we bomb a boat in international waters killing 11
Now we are going to rename the dept to portray what is now the goal - WAR - killing people, not to defend our nation but because Trump wants to
And this douche bag wants a Nobel peace prize????🙄
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
First we bomb a boat in international waters killing 11
Now we are going to rename the dept to portray what is now the goal - WAR - killing people, not to defend our nation but because Trump wants to
And this douche bag wants a Nobel peace prize????🙄
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
@illinoispress.bsky.social is offering 50% off all labor studies books this weekend (25% off all other books)
Great time to pick up Making Michigan Home (preorder for release on 12/23)
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Great Lakes Region
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
Great time to pick up Making Michigan Home (preorder for release on 12/23)
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Great Lakes Region
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
August 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
@illinoispress.bsky.social is offering 50% off all labor studies books this weekend (25% off all other books)
Great time to pick up Making Michigan Home (preorder for release on 12/23)
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Great Lakes Region
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
Great time to pick up Making Michigan Home (preorder for release on 12/23)
Examines how Mexican Americans made their home in the Great Lakes Region
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...
Here, fixed the headline for you @axios.com
“Trump signs (illegal) executive order targeting First Amendment”
“Trump signs (illegal) executive order targeting First Amendment”
August 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Here, fixed the headline for you @axios.com
“Trump signs (illegal) executive order targeting First Amendment”
“Trump signs (illegal) executive order targeting First Amendment”
So Trump wants to cut out THE MAJORITY of our nation’s history
Can Trump just shut his orange-stained mouth and let us recognize our present in light of our past so we can actually live up to the idea of all people created equal and where the government actually works to uplift marginalized groups?
Can Trump just shut his orange-stained mouth and let us recognize our present in light of our past so we can actually live up to the idea of all people created equal and where the government actually works to uplift marginalized groups?
August 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
So Trump wants to cut out THE MAJORITY of our nation’s history
Can Trump just shut his orange-stained mouth and let us recognize our present in light of our past so we can actually live up to the idea of all people created equal and where the government actually works to uplift marginalized groups?
Can Trump just shut his orange-stained mouth and let us recognize our present in light of our past so we can actually live up to the idea of all people created equal and where the government actually works to uplift marginalized groups?
So, either Trump is a racist who says there were “good” parts to slavery OR Trump is a nationalist who wants to hide our country’s past in which case history is erased and we cannot move forward which will perpetuate racism & white supremacy
Or both
Or both
August 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
So, either Trump is a racist who says there were “good” parts to slavery OR Trump is a nationalist who wants to hide our country’s past in which case history is erased and we cannot move forward which will perpetuate racism & white supremacy
Or both
Or both